> I did not hear about someone swapping CPUs in any laptop lately To be clear I didn't mean that non-soldered CPU, ZIF equipped laptops don't exist anymore, bu

> I did not hear about someone swapping CPUs in any laptop lately To be clear I didn't mean that non-soldered CPU, ZIF equipped laptops don't exist anymore, but that people actually upgrading/fixing their CPU is by and large an extremely rare occurrence, while RAM and mass storage are much, much more prone to upgrade/fixing. I would personally not consider a soldered CPU a problem, especially given that most of the time if anything goes wrong in such areas, it's a blown capacitor or a bad plug assembly/soldering on the motherboard that gives in.